UN General Assembly on Thursday elected Nigeria to occupy a vacant seat at the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), the economic arm of the United Nations, for a three-year term, beginning January 1, 2024. Nigeria will serve from 2024...
A cybercrime gang has warned more than 100,000 staff at major British companies to email them before June 14 or stolen data will be published. According to the BBC, whose employees were victims in the hack, the Clop group...
One of the PKK/KCK terror group's senior leaders, Sinan Dijvar (code named Fehmi Ogmen), has been neutralised in an operation by Türkiye's National Intelligence Organisation (MIT) in northern Iraq.In addition, Mazlum Kocer, who was in charge of the S.Resit...
With rescue work finished, authorities have begun clearing the mangled wreckage of two passenger trains that derailed in eastern India, killing more than 300 people and injuring hundreds.Fifteen bodies were recovered on Saturday evening and efforts continued overnight as...
More than 900 people are injured and many are still feared trapped in "heavy accident" involving two passenger trains and freight train in Odisha state, officials and local media say. The death toll from a multiple train collision in...
The war in Ukraine helped push the global total of people left internally displaced by conflict or natural disasters to a record high of 71.1 million last year, according to a report by the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Internal Displacement...
President Muhammadu Buhari has officially unveiled the Dangote Petroleum Refinery in Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos.The State-of-the-Art refinery is expected to not only make the country self-sufficient in refined products but also position it as a potential exporter of surplus products.The presence...
Nigeria and Cameroon have beefed up security in the Gulf of Guinea and maritime borders as the 14 days ultimatum by the Biafra Nations League (BnL) to release the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi kanu,...
The G7 announced plans to restrict the trade in diamonds with Russia in an effort to cut the revenues that fund Moscow’s ongoing war against Ukraine. Leaders of the G7 countries announced the new sanctions in a joint statement...
The First Lady, Aisha Buhari, on Friday, in Abuja, said the newly inaugurated N21bn Presidential Wing of the State House Medical Centre will end the need for future presidents and their family members seeking medical treatment abroad.She said this...
